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四馬攢蹄
Trussed Like a Hog
即又跳下石崖，過澗入洞，把那綁唐僧與樵子的繩索拿入中堂，那老妖還睡著了，即將他四馬攢蹄綑倒，使金箍棒掬起來，握在肩上，徑出後門。即又跳下石崖，过涧入洞，把那绑唐僧与樵子的绳索拿入中堂，那老妖还睡着了，即将他四马攒蹄捆倒，使金箍棒掬起来，握在肩上，径出后门。
逐句解 Line by line
即又跳下石崖，過澗入洞，把那綁唐僧與樵子的繩索拿入中堂，那老妖還睡著了，即將他四馬攢蹄綑倒，使金箍棒掬起來，握在肩上，徑出後門。
即又跳下石崖，过涧入洞，把那绑唐僧与樵子的绳索拿入中堂，那老妖还睡着了，即将他四马攒蹄捆倒，使金箍棒掬起来，握在肩上，径出后门。
So down the stone cliff he went again, across the ravine and into the cave. He took the ropes that had bound the Tang Monk and the woodcutter into the main hall, where the old fiend was still asleep, trussed him up with all four hooves gathered together, hoisted him on the gold-hooped rod, gripped it on his shoulder, and went straight out of the back door.
四馬攢蹄 is the standard phrase for tying all four limbs together behind the back, the way a pig is carried to market — and 攢 is cuán there, the gathering sense, not the putting-money-by reading the machinery reaches for. 睡著了 takes 著 as zhe, and 綑倒 takes 倒 as dǎo. Note what he uses for rope: the cords the fiends tied his master with.
總評 Commentary
Wukong ties the leopard up with the rope that held his teacher. The novel does not point at it. It simply says which rope he fetched.
The trussing is described in the language of livestock handling, and that is the point. The Great King of the Southern Mountain, several hundred years at large, leaves his own hall slung from a pole like something going to market.